Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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help Mikayla when he heard Kylie

neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was

the first ald

and

at her

as he pulled at her arm, it

felt a

What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing his brows.

voice. Her eyes began

Jerome felt a

to be with

voice was hoarse, and her tone betrayed no

tightened

someone’s life

the first aid

you trying

woman approached at that moment, carrying the first

attempted to help Mikayla stand up, but she coldly pushed him

got back to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away

Mikayla to find out what had

out a stifled

responsible for

to a complete stop. “Shall we go to the hospital?”

pale face, Kylie shook her head. “I’m

be fine? Another inch deeper, and it

was that person just now?

forced a faint smile. “She might have misunderstood

still defending her. I think we should call the police

round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for

she could tell

If you need someone to look

“What just happened? Why did